Cinephile: The University of British Columbia's Film Journal

Deadline for draft submissions: March 6, 2015. The Sixties was a period of radical change, revolution, and major political and social upheaval. Following Arthur Marwick’s definition of the period as one that extends from...

Deadline for draft submissions: September 5, 2014 The emergence of queer theory from the fields of post-structuralism and feminism in the 1990s sought to destabilize identity and its attendant heteronormative and cisgendered ideological constructions. Grounded...

Deadline for draft submissions: March 17, 2014 Music acts as vital connective tissue between even the most disparate forms of documentary, a filmic mode that claims closer ties to our experience of reality than...

Suffice to say, no Hollywood superhero films screened at the Vancouver International Film Festival in 2013. Indeed, the festival’s promotional video, which preceded every film, pointedly mocked the bombastic clichés proliferating the marketing of...

Cinephile 9.1 “Reevaluating Television” featuring articles by Jason Mittell and Rachel Talalay is now available! You can pick it up in Vancouver at Mayfair News, Pulp Fiction Books, Tanglewood Books, UBC Bookstore, and Zulu...

Deadline for draft submissions: September 2, 2013 The comic book medium has evidenced a profound growth in legitimacy and cultural currency in the past twenty years. Such a shift has been echoed in filmic...

Cinephile 8.2 “Contemporary Extremism” is now available! Featuring original articles by Tanya Horeck and Tina Kendall, Tim Palmer, and Dave Alexander, the issue seeks to expand the discourse around extremist cinema beyond its traditionally...

The last decade has marked an escalation in the treatment of extreme subject matter in European cinema, heralded by the graphic violence and sexuality of French New Extremism at the turn of the millennium...